Tag: Shaun Maloney
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Wigan 3-3 Fulham: Relatively glamorous
Here’s a scary fact for you: Wigan Athletic have failed to beat Fulham since the first Halloween… or at least 2006, which amounts to the same thing considering my BBC Micro-esque short term memory. I am informed Emmerson Boyce was in the starting lineup that day, the only surviving member of the Latics squad for […]
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Wigan 2-1 Nottingham Forest: Won’t Get Fooled Again
Phew, third home game in a row. I haven’t even had to change out of my slippers for two weeks – you’d think it was my birthday or something. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it *was* my birthday recently, so that decidedly weak attempt at ‘humour’ probably won’t make any sense to you whatsoever. […]
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Wigan 2-2 Doncaster: Drama! Goals! People being kicked in the shins!
Finished re-arranging dust in the general vicinity of your boots yet? Good, because Tuesday’s here already and it’s time to moan about the referee/Owen Coyle/the price of pies (delete as appropriate) again! If I remember correctly –and I probably don’t because I went to the game in a virus-induced, zombified state–, the last time Wigan […]
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Barnsley 0-4 Wigan: Championship, meet Wigan Athletic
Even after seeing your team win the FA Cup just months earlier, there is no better feeling than waking up on the first morning of the new football season. Not even the prospect of starting two weeks earlier for Wigan’s (glorious?) return to the Championship can blemish the refreshing sensation that puts a spring in […]
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Millwall 0-2 Wigan: Is this the real life?
To relieve some pre-Wembley tension, I took a walk round Wigan town centre on Friday lunchtime. Far from taking my mind off the game, the scarf sellers bellowing ‘get yer Latics flags ‘ere!’ from every street corner only served to remind me how dear the Wigan public hold a Wembley away day to their hearts. […]
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QPR 1-1 Wigan: Pot split following photo finish
OK, let’s get this out of the way before we go any further. For backing Harry the Viking instead of Roberto Goldback in yesterday’s Grand National, I am a disgrace to the club and shall spend the rest of the week perched on the naughty step next to that pile of dirty laundry and Dad’s […]
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Wigan 2-2 Southampton: Lucky Latics pinch prized point
The January transfer window firmly locked for safety, we now move into the ‘interesting’ part of the season. It is the time when Wigan start to produce their best football as the threat of relegation transforms into a very real possibility with every point dropped. Or so one would hope. Latics, however, remain undoubtedly unsettled […]
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Wigan 2-2 Stoke: A tale of two subs
It happens just prior to the closure of every transfer window: supposedly highbrow, intellectual publications transform into glorified versions of those 99p gossip magazines that usually end up covering the windows of abandoned houses. Renowned commentators become facsimiles of Jeremy Kyle; spendthrift clubs become bigger impulse buyers than a shopaholic on payday; online blogs become… […]